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These essays relate meat eating to cannibalism, female circumcision to medically assisted reproduction, and mythic thought to scientific thought. They explore practices of incest and patriarchy, nature worship versus man-made material obsessions, the perceived threat of art in various cultures, and the innovations and limitations of secular thought. Lévi-Strauss measures the short distance between "complex" and "primitive" societies and finds a shared madness in the ways we enact myth, ritual, and custom. Yet he also locates a pure and persistent ethics that connects the center of Western civilization to far-flung societies and forces a reckoning with outmoded ideas of morality and reason.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Sociology & anthropology Anthropology

• Full title: We Are All Cannibals
• Author: Clause Levi-Strauss
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 176
• EAN: 9780231170680
• ISBN: 0231170688
• ID: 02912569
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Weight: 356 g
• Dimensions: 278 × 150 × 25 mm
• Date of publishing: 15. March 2016

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